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Another excellent breakdown GTripp.

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Offense
The other difference between the halves is that the tight ends were very involved in the first half. In the second, Minnesota took away Cooley and Davis first, and put pressure on McNabb second. The Redskins didn't complete a pass to a receiver more than five yards down the field in the second half, with the exception of the Armstrong play. You have to credit the Vikings for taking away the things the Redskins were doing well in the first half. Then blame the Redskins for not coming up with something else that would work. The number of receiver drops (4) in this game created an ugly result, evidenced by the numbers above. The Redskins offense, blocking and all, would have produced excellent results in the first half if not for the drops. In the second half, the drops simply compounded an offense that couldn't find anything that would work..

You Fred Davis only played 19 snaps out of 56?
Roydell Williams played more snaps.
9 carries by the RBs only 3 for KeiWi

In the second half, Anthony Armstrong was open whenever he wasn't doubled, and it just didn't matter. When Moss isn't doubled, teams have problems with him. Schematically, Armstrong is tougher to get the ball to.

I don't understand what you mean that its tougher to get Armstrong the ball.

Quarterback Performance
More or less, the rest of his day was pedestrian and efficient.

I'm just happy to see McNabb throw the flat route.
He hit one to Davis early and threw another to Armstrong who dropped probably from shock that McNabb threw the ball there he hasn't all season.

I continue to feel that the way the Shanahan's corrected the reads system at the bye has helped McNabb. Whatever we were running in the first half of the season...I was confused as how that was supposed to work.That wasn't a professional passing game, that was a gimmick passing game.

I don't think it was anything different.
Some commentator from some game explained that the reads were from deep to short and ithought that was wrong and Kyle later came said in a presser that they way that announcer described the read progression was wrong.

I feel like we have a much better offense now, and that McNabb is playing a lot better and is throwing more accurately because the passing game has an engine: we use the tight ends in so many different ways over the last three weeks that it's taken some pressure off of both the offensive line and the quarterback.

Long time coming too.
I think they should take the open script and expand it into their gameplanning philosophy going forward.

Although the raw efficiency of the first half offense could have fooled me, this still looks like a team that is trying hard to find something it can do really, really well.

Agree and i believe its been under their noses the whole time.
Center the passing game around Cooley and Davis then the WRs.

Despite Keiland Williams' recent success, the coaching staff doesn't appear sold on him as a runner, using Brandon Banks as a wildcat back and giving James Davis twice as many carries with half the playing time.

Yeah its weird that they didn't give Keiland the lions share of the carries, but i don like the wildcat just as a change up.
Only giving the backs 9 carries imo was a mistake even if it was against the Williams wall.

The dropsies shouldn't be an issue going forward because they weren't an issue coming in. They were just an example of another way the Redskins have failed to execute offensively when their season was on the line

After watching Armstrong run that shallow crosser and get his bell rung yet make the catch and pop up no worse for wear and showing the speed to get passed the coverage with ease yet the tracking ability to come back and make a tough catch i'm starting to wonder how the offense would look if Armstrong was the 1st option WR.